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mircea_popescu: i don't need any cable where i can't see it nor anything but cable tyvm.
mircea_popescu: also lots of proprietary gunk. "stop sending docx, it is NOT USEFUL"
mircea_popescu: ie, lots of businesses still use paper archival exclusively.
mircea_popescu: not through any fault of his. it's what the text says, on account of it being written in romanian for romanians.
mircea_popescu: " what a hottie of a secretary " << no. pointedly not. what a miracleworker they employ in the front desk.
mircea_popescu: if your solution does not include cheating what even makes you think it's a solution at all!
mircea_popescu: caning. what's that even ? barely noticeable biologically.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile you don't even need much caning to get a willing slave into a sane head space.
mircea_popescu: as a result, no amount of pain suffering or violence could have matured the individual. on the contrary - it drove infantilization.
mircea_popescu: it was in fact exactly the same : an exercise in esteem engineering.
mircea_popescu: ironically, auschwitz has a LOT more in common with the "boost self esteem" version of us schools than with actual education.
mircea_popescu: but the adolescent wakes up with "i wonder what insane demands will my chosen identity put on me THIS TIME"
mircea_popescu: adolescence is not childhood. the child wakes up with what SEEMS "what shall i do to amuse himself", except to him it';s a dealdy grind.
mircea_popescu: just like that, go to school, take a job that's "not the real you", on it goes.
mircea_popescu: what franklin spoke of was a different time. a time when adulthood was unavoidable, and as such lazy people simply succumbed to the hollow form. "hey, if no kid can tell me from any other adult, why bother."
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> how is this a mistake? << see there. i don't say such.
mircea_popescu: quite. and how much of one's passion with rare keyboards is driven by a fear of this issue ?
mircea_popescu: because to the adolescent it seems like the same thing.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, individuality is not a matter of appearance.
mircea_popescu: so : we can sit right here and smoke the same cigar for different reasons altogether.
mircea_popescu: and there she is, the cat, with her smile that deserves a caning just for that. she knows what she's doing, quite exactly. so what now ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you like cohiba because it tastes good, and you're at a party and this chick you used to fuck DELIBERATELY introduces her current derp, who goes on a rant about how he loves cohiba and did you see that commercial ? maks him feel like who he really is!11
mircea_popescu: lemme see if you ever had this experience. was it ever the case that you enjoyed a product, only to be confronted with some idiot enjoying the same product for the "wrong reasons" ?
mircea_popescu: this could, apparently, be misinterpreted as a reduction of individuality. but it'd take a teen to make the mistake.
mircea_popescu: they individuate out of this, maybe, into adulthood. ironically, adults are apparently a lot more similar than the adolsecents are.
mircea_popescu: the big secret being that juveniles have no soul. they're not individuals, they're the zerg creep.
mircea_popescu: the irony here, true, unadorned irony of the greek sort, is that the champion of the faux, out of a misguided desire for authenticity metastasized out of his own problems with the faux and handles thereof, stuck to the infantile version instead of individuating into the adult.
mircea_popescu: and sure, a bunch of boys get married because who they want to be.
mircea_popescu: sense of humor. aka faux hipster irony. in other words, a facility with the faux.
mircea_popescu: sense of humor, you know ? there's a reason all the frustrated dudes on forums picked this from a sea of random crap.
mircea_popescu: and he wants a girl - if only the women would understand how great a sense of humor he has.
mircea_popescu: see, all the other dudes are there for whatever reasons - he's there because of who he wants to be. "the sort of guy who fights in the civil war - if only the latrines weren't barbed wired"
mircea_popescu: soldiering it was, but his protestations make it obvious he didn't reallyt have any business there.
mircea_popescu: and i would suspect he was never intimate with a woman, either.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is strictly possible soldier actually believes in the war and his side. there's nothing wrong with this.
mircea_popescu: the notion of freedom you carry most closely approximates death.
mircea_popescu: more importantly - soldier doesn't havfe the choice of "i'm too good for this"
mircea_popescu: infantry cuts through it faster than infantry can deploy it, think about that.
mircea_popescu: who exactly kept them there ? why not go into business ? work for businessmen ?\
mircea_popescu: like the people who "stayed in statal employment" cca 1992.
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? it doesn't DO anything. it's there so the fucktards can BLAME IT for who they are.
mircea_popescu: it is there to JUSTIFY one's own lassitude, even as that becomes socially inacceptable.
mircea_popescu: why aren't you all the things you aren't doing, like putting your cock in the mouth of girl sitting across the table ?
mircea_popescu: be worried when no barbed wire and guns, like the us 60s.
mircea_popescu: barbed wire and guns are more of a sign that things are improving than anything.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, in the "value is what people want" paradigm, the former is incredibly poor.
mircea_popescu: so in the only sane paradigm, the latter is actually more impoverished.
mircea_popescu: notably, the 10k fuckholes aren't "more valuable" in either scenario. they ARE however LESS UTILIZED in the second.
mircea_popescu: 3k people pay 1.5mn each per fuckhole, have no time to do anything but run arround trying to service the 2.8mn they owe
mircea_popescu: suppose they're 10k american fuckholes. 11k dudes want one, on which basis 100k more dudes are made to think they want one
mircea_popescu: ah. suppose you have 10k soviet fuckholes, and 11k dudes want one. 10k dudes pay 10k per fuckhole each, and spend the time alternatively fucking the hole and laughing at the 1k.